For such a wide release, £7 million does seem a bit underwhelming. What was its screen average like compared to other films released this week, and some of the other big tentpole films recently?

29 minutes ago, Brett-Butler said:

For such a wide release, £7 million does seem a bit underwhelming. What was its screen average like compared to other films released this week, and some of the other big tentpole films recently?

Pretty decent really. It had a £10,030 screen average which is a lot stronger than the other big releases this week. 'Goat' had £3,296 and 'Crime 101' had £2,419. The second biggest opening weekend so far this year is 'Hamnet' and that had a £4,635 average.

As this opening would have only been the 10th biggest opening of 2025 but the release is wider than any film released last year, it obviously lower than last year's biggest films. But with more cinemas, that's to be expected.

If we go back to the same weekend last year, 'Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy' did £16,917 in 727 cinemas and 'Captain America: Brave New World' did £10,397 in 616 cinemas. So its a lot less popular than Bridget Jones but its a similar number to Captain America despite that film going all out on premium formats (IMAX etc) that would have boosted the average ticket price.

Margot's openings are INSANE!! Wow. A genuine movie star for this generation! I still need to see 'Wuthering Heights' myself, but I loved both 'Promising Young Woman' and 'Saltburn', so I'm excited to see it. I'm really not familiar with the story of it though and I'm not a Charli fan really... so we'll see I guess!

I hope 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die' can do something decent next week. I went to the Secret Screening of it tonight and it's SO good! Nice to see quite a bold and interesting original movie idea.

Shame If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is not being shown in many cinemas despite it being nominated for Oscars and Cineworld aren’t even showing it next month as part of its Oscar nominations season

Impressed with that opening for 'Wuthering Heights' as there was some online backlash from the trailer alone, and I'm happy for Emerald as hopefully she'll come up with another 'Saltburn' in the future (have heard great things about 'Promising Young Woman' too but haven't seen it), but it didn't live up to my expectations. Will be interested to see what the holds are like because I don't think word of mouth is going to be great...

This coming weekend is SO packed with new releases that I view as essential (I hope you've already caught some at Unlimited screenings @Josh! ) - 'The Moment', 'The Secret Agent', 'Wasteman' and 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' all interest me, and there are a couple more releases that haven't caught my attention personally. Maybe a crowded week is why 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' doesn't seem to be showing at any Cineworld in London, nor is it playing at my local Vue, which really I think is a travesty considering it picked up a Golden Globe win, is up for an Oscar in a major category etc. These cinemas have all shown the trailer too which is the frustrating thing. ( @LewisGT do you have any intel on whether it's planned to expand more widely the week after, or are the locations this weekend going to be the best of what we're getting? )

19 minutes ago, J❄️hq said:

( @LewisGT do you have any intel on whether it's planned to expand more widely the week after, or are the locations this weekend going to be the best of what we're getting? )

From what I've read, it looks like it's planning on going into its widest release straight away. But if it does well, I imagine they will try and re-push again towards the Oscars date.

It is being distributed by Picturehouse Entertainment, so it makes sense that they're focusing more on their own venues and other arthouse cinemas rather than the big chains.

2 hours ago, J❄️hq said:

Impressed with that opening for 'Wuthering Heights' as there was some online backlash from the trailer alone, and I'm happy for Emerald as hopefully she'll come up with another 'Saltburn' in the future (have heard great things about 'Promising Young Woman' too but haven't seen it), but it didn't live up to my expectations. Will be interested to see what the holds are like because I don't think word of mouth is going to be great...

This coming weekend is SO packed with new releases that I view as essential (I hope you've already caught some at Unlimited screenings @Josh! ) - 'The Moment', 'The Secret Agent', 'Wasteman' and 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' all interest me, and there are a couple more releases that haven't caught my attention personally. Maybe a crowded week is why 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' doesn't seem to be showing at any Cineworld in London, nor is it playing at my local Vue, which really I think is a travesty considering it picked up a Golden Globe win, is up for an Oscar in a major category etc. These cinemas have all shown the trailer too which is the frustrating thing. ( @LewisGT do you have any intel on whether it's planned to expand more widely the week after, or are the locations this weekend going to be the best of what we're getting? )

Managed to squeeze in ‘If I had Legs’ and ‘secret agent’ but were on holiday next week so having to go to cinema Friday/Sunday/Monday/Tuesday just to keep up!!!! Who’s making these release schedules!!!!

Most excited for The Moment this week. I hope you get chance to seee Rose Byrne, Jack, because it was my fave of all time 20 acting noms.

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20th February 2026 - 22nd February 2026

 

1. (01) Wuthering Heights - £3,878,032 (-50%) Weeks: 2 (£16,282,904)

2. (02) Goat - £2,769,664 (-21%) Weeks: 2 (£10,537,363)

3. (03) Crime 101 - £763,942 (-46%) Weeks: 2 (£2,959,862)

4. (06) Zootropolis 2 - £681,133 (+51%) Weeks: 13 (£35,754,548)

5. (NE) The Secret Agent - £416,159 Weeks: 1 (£416,159)

6. (NE) Cold Storage - £399,675 Weeks: 1 (£399,675)

7. (04) Send Help - £341,745 (-57%) Weeks: 3 (£3,880,268)

8. (NE) Wasteman - £330,866 Weeks: 1 (£330,866)

9. (NE) The Moment - £324,353 Weeks: 1 (£324,353)

10. (NE) Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die - £278,957 Weeks: 1 (£278,957)

 

Falling out:

The Housemaid (8 weeks)

Hamnet (6 weeks)

Stich Head (1 week)

Whistle (1 week)

Avatar: Fire And Ash (9 weeks)

A busy weekend with five new entries, but it’s the holdovers that win out with an unchanged top 3, including ‘Wuthering Heights’ landing a second week at #1 after a 50% drop. Already up to £16 million, in terms of last year’s releases, after two weekends it has already overtaken the top final figures of ‘Sinners’ and ‘Thunderbolts*’. It’s a pretty standard drop in weekend two so I’m interested how it performs next week with the mixed word-of-mouth. ‘Goat’ has a great weekend as it holds at #2 with its 21% actually being a 25% increase when you take out previews. This is thanks to last week being a school holiday which meant that kids were free to go to the cinemas on Friday. With strong-midweek showings too, it has allowed the film to become the third 2026 release to break the £10 million barrier. A feat that only three animated films managed last year and this will soon overtake two of those (‘Dog Man’ and ‘The Bad Guys 2’). Holding at #3 is ‘Crime 101’ that loses 46% but ends the weekend at £3 million. It has outgrossed ‘Caught Stealing’ (£1.7 million) which feels like the closest comparison from last year, genre-wise.

 

The highest new entry this week is Brazilian Best Picture nominee ‘The Secret Agent’ (£416,159, £246k without previews, #5). This is about a former teacher caught up in the political turmoil of Brazil in the 1970s. This stars Wagner Moura who is a real contender for the Best Actor Oscar after already winning prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards. Without previews, this would have just missed the top 10. However, I think it’s expanding wider next week so could stick around.

 

Opening just behind at #6 is ‘Cold Storage’ (£399,675). This is a delayed release for a film that was filmed in 2023. Fresh off the success of ‘End of Beginning’, this stars Joe Keery and Georgina Campbell alongside a starry supporting cast including Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville and Vanessa Redgrave. This is a horror comedy about parasitic fungus and has earned surpassingly decent reviews for a held-back release. It’s directed by Jonny Campbell who directed the first series of the legendary ‘Phoenix Nights’ but his only other film credit was 20 years ago on the Ant and Dec vehicle ‘Alien Autopsy’ (£796,119, #3, 2006) if you remember that.

 

Opening at #8 is British prison-drama ‘Wasteman’ (£330,866, £279k without previews). Originally intended as an A24 release directed by the Safdie Brothers, they dropped-out to make ‘Uncut Gems’ and Cal McMau has stepped up to make his debut feature. Two of the hottest names in the British acting scene, David Jonsson and Tom Blythe take the lead roles and have earned rave reviews.

 

She’s bagged herself a #1 album with the soundtrack to this week’s #1 film but Charli xcx has also had a go at Hollywood herself with her mockumentary where she plays an exaggerated version of herself, ‘The Moment’ opens at #9 (£324,353).

 

The final new entry this week is ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ (£278,957, #10). This is the return of director Gore Verbinski in his first film in 9 years. This is a sci-fi comedy starring Sam Rockwell and was independently financed to the tune of $20 million. Rockwell stars as a man who travels back in time to an LA diner to recruit a team to stop a rogue AI from killing the world. All of these new entries were actually beat by the previews of ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert’ this weekend so expect a good opening for that next week.

 

The two other holders are both ex-#1 hits. ‘Zootropolis 2’ climbs back to #4 on week 13 after half-term boosting it 51%. It will now pass ‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ next week to enter the top 5 films of 2025. Another £1.2 million would move it up to fourth and pass ‘Lilo & Stitch’ as the biggest kids film of the year. What an inane run this has been! ‘Send Help’ isn’t quite having the same legs, losing 57% on week three and ending the weekend just short of £4 million.

 

There are two further new entries in the #11-15 section: ‘Night King’ (#13) and ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ (#15).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Scream 7’, ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert’, ‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’, ‘Sirat’, ‘Pegasus 3’, ‘The Spin’ and ‘All You Need Is Kill’. Can any of them top the charts?

 

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Gore Verbinski openings:

 

Mousehunt (£975,360, #2, 1998)

The Mexican (£1,124,265, #2, 2001)

The Ring (£2,200,084, #1, 2003)

Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (£3,765,450, #1, 2003)

The Weather Man (£406,217, #8, 2006)

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (£13,740,784, #1, 2006)

Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End (£13,412,294, #1, 2007)

Rango (£1,638,613, #1, 2011)

The Lone Ranger (£1,342,196, #5, 2015)

A Cure For Wellness (£409,540, #10, 2017)

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (£278,957, #10, 2026)

Be interesting to see Scream 7's numbers but even with the backlash its coming straight in at num 1

Scream saving Wuthering Heights from falling to 2 to Goat!!!

Never realised that the Pirates films bombed in their first weeks!!!

2 hours ago, Henessy Lake said:

Be interesting to see Scream 7's numbers but even with the backlash its coming straight in at num 1

Definitely going to be number 1. The real story will be the hold it has. It's also getting backlash due to it's AI use... so we'll see what legs it has.

I’m surprised EPIC hasn’t entered when it was out this weekend. The IMAX screenings they had this week were absolutely packed out

16 minutes ago, Hadji said:

I’m surprised EPIC hasn’t entered when it was out this weekend. The IMAX screenings they had this week were absolutely packed out

It was on previews this weekend but did gross more than any of this week’s actual new releases so will have a good debut next weekend.

Shame the weekend previews never contribute. That means the weekend screenings of Hoppers won’t be contributing next week and because of the previews, The Bride! will more likely beat Hoppers to number 1

It’s best to think of “previews” as similarly to “pre-orders” for an album.

I honestly can’t see The Bride or Hoppers being massive tbh. I hope to be wrong but idk…

That week is 100% going to be Peaky Blinders at number 1 and probably with 3million+. i can see The Bride and Hoppers being about 1.5million-ish. But who knows about Hoppers. I’m hoping for strong reviews.

1 hour ago, Tafty said:

It’s best to think of “previews” as similarly to “pre-orders” for an album.

I honestly can’t see The Bride or Hoppers being massive tbh. I hope to be wrong but idk…

That week is 100% going to be Peaky Blinders at number 1 and probably with 3million+. i can see The Bride and Hoppers being about 1.5million-ish. But who knows about Hoppers. I’m hoping for strong reviews.

The Bride! and Hoppers both have pre-sale tickets up for sale and as for Peaky Blinders, IMDb has it down for 20th March and I don’t know if all cinemas will be showing it. I hope it gets shown in at least one of my local cinemas and both my local cinemas have been ignoring certain films

Yeah, I saw the trailer for Peaky Blinders today and it made me realise that it's Netflix, so I'd expect the cinema release to be really quite limited? (like how I don't think the big 3 chains had 'The Thursday Murder Club'). And they won't release the figures either?

I hope Hoppers can do well for Pixar, with it being an original story. It looks really promising from the trailer.

Ohhh yes I forgot Netflix don't release their figures (crazy work tbh. Surely bragging about the box office success will only help when it gets released to their service??)

On 24/02/2026 at 09:14, Hadji said:

The Bride! and Hoppers both have pre-sale tickets up for sale and as for Peaky Blinders, IMDb has it down for 20th March and I don’t know if all cinemas will be showing it. I hope it gets shown in at least one of my local cinemas and both my local cinemas have been ignoring certain films

20th March is the Netflix release date and 6th March is the theatrical release date!

27th February 2026 - 1st March 2026

 

1. (NE) Scream 7 - £3,828,308 Weeks: 1 (£3,828,308)

2. (01) Wuthering Heights - £2,238,428 (-42%) Weeks: 3 (£20,777,747)

3. (NE) EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert - £1,877,687 Weeks: 1 (£1,877,687)

4. (02) Goat - £903,253 (-67%) Weeks: 3 (£11,813,068)

5. (03) Crime 101 - £411,606 (-46%) Weeks: 3 (£3,727,466)

6. (05) The Secret Agent - £180,833 (-57%) Weeks: 2 (£754,081)

7. (04) Zootropolis 2 - £179,293 (-74%) Weeks: 14 (£36,007,025)

8. (RE) The Audience: NT Live - £176,994 Weeks: 1 (£535,386)

9. (NE) Pegasus 3 - £165,773 Weeks: 1 (£165,773)

10. (NE) The Testament Of Ann Lee - £162,736 Weeks: 1 (£162,736)

 

Falling out:

Cold Storage (1 week)

Send Help (3 weeks)

Wasteman (1 week)

The Moment (1 week)

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (1 week)

For the second weekend in a row, we have five new entries into the top 10 but its an old favourite scaring the competition and conjuring up a record opening with ‘Scream 7’ topping the chart with £3,828,308, £3.3 million without previews). Since the series was ‘rebooted’, each film has opened higher with the last with this now becoming the franchise’s best opening weekend. It’s been a controversial and tremulous road for this to hit cinemas. Originally announced as a continuation of part 6 with stars Jenna Ortrega & Melissa Barrera returning to be directed by Christopehr Landon, all three eventually left the project after Barrera was fired for her pro-Palestine views. After that it was announced that Neve Campbell would be returning with scribe of three of the original four films, Kevin Williamson stepping into the director’s chair for the first time. But it’s proved to be successful with this being the second biggest opening of 2026 so far. To become the biggest ‘Scream’ film overall, it would need to top the £8.4 million made by the original in 1997.

 

The highest debut of the weekend goes to ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert’ (£1,877,687, £1.1 million without previews). This opened last weekend in just IMAX previews. Pitched as being something between a documentary and a concert-film, this is made up of footage that was found from the Warner Bros. Film archives from the recordings of ‘Elvis: That’s The Way It Is’ and ‘Elvis on Tour’ and was restored by Baz Luhrmann and his team as research for the 2022 biopic ‘Elvis’ (£4,023,572, #1, 2022). I haven’t seen it so I’m not sure it it falls more into the documentary or concert film bracket but BoxOfficeTheory have reported that this is the third biggest opening for a documentary after ‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It’ (£4,877,255, #1, 2009) and ‘One Direction: This Is Us’ (£3,471,872, #1, 2013). More good news for event cinema with ‘The Audience: NT Live’ entering at #9 (£175k). With its midweek showings, it is already up to £532k. Last year, in the equivalent weekend, “The Importance of Being Earnest: NT Live 2025’ debuted at #8 with £341,208 and £1,048,377 in total. ‘The Audience’ sees Dame Helen Mirron star as Queen Elizabeth II and was originally released in cinemas in 2013 making £2.3 million in total. ‘Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined’ just missed out on the top 10 but has £413,743 when you consider midweek showings too.

 

A new entry at #9, ‘Pegasus 3’ (£165,773, #9) is a Chinese sports drama and has already been a massive hit in China grossing over $550 million there already. In the UK, this is this the fifth biggest debut for a Chinese film. See below for the full top 5. The first film debuted with £74,070 in 2019 but I can’t see any data for the sequel.

 

The final new entry this week is ‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’ (£162,736, #10). This debuted at Venice and was, at one time, star Amanda Seyfried was a contender for an Oscar nom but eventually missed out, despite her picking up Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice nominations. She stars as Ann Lee, the real-life Manchester-born founder of the Shakers sect of Christianity. This is also a musical and sounds like a real crazy movie.

 

‘Wuthering Heights’ loses its crown after two weeks at the top after a 42% drop. It has now passed £20 million which makes it the biggest film of the year so far and would be within the top 15 of 2025 releases.

 

After massive boosts for the half-term last week, the kids films both see big losses with ‘Goat’ dropping 67% and ‘Zootropolis 2’ losing 74%. ‘Zootropolis 2’ is now less than £1 million from entering the top 5 of 2025 while ‘Goat’ is getting close to reaching the final total of ‘Dog Man’ which was the big animated hit of Q1 last year.

 

Award favourite ‘The Secret Agent’ expanded in weekend two and had a good hold when you take out the previews (-57%, -27% without previews). It’s already the third highest grossing Brazilian film in the UK. While ‘Crime 101’ drops 46% but remains in the top 5 for a third week and hitting £3.8 million in total.

 

There are two further new entries in the #11-15 section: ‘Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined’ (#11) and ‘Sirat’ (#12).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Hoppers’, ‘The Bride!’, ‘Mother’s Pride’, ‘Dolly’, ‘The King’s Warden’, ‘Sound Of Falling’, ‘Masthishka Maranam’, ‘James Acaster: Cinemagoers Welcome’ and ‘Soul To Soul’. We also see re-releases of ‘Hard Boiled’ and ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle’. Can any of them top the charts?

 

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Scream openings:

 

Scream (£1,126,010, #3, 1997)

Scream 2 (£2,493,950, #1, 1998)

Scream 3 (£2,449,937, #1, 2000)

Scream 4 (£2,061,885, #1, 2011)

Scream (£2,468,510, #2, 2022)

Scream VI (£3,043,922, #1, 2023)

Scream 7 (£3,828,308, #1, 2026)

 

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Biggest Chinese Openings:

 

1. Ne Zha 2 - £1,235,546, #2, 2025

2. Hero - £1,005,571, #3, 2004

3. The Wandering Earth II - £385,959, #9, 2003

4. Detective Chinatown 1990 - £301,052, #11, 2025

5. Pegasus 3 - £165k, #9, 2026